Wednesday, September 25, 2013

PG & beerman play 'tourist'

Our
only real ‘tourist’ day .. we had organised the taxi man from the airport to
take us up to Doi Suthep and the Tiger Kingdom today.Thought about using ‘public transport’ but
given I knew it was a super windy road to the temple on the mountain, I figured
a trip like that in the back of a songthaew was probably not something Tony’s
knee would take kindly to, so taxi it was.

Doi
Suthep is a mountain situated ‘behind’ Chiang Mai with a large temple complex
on top.You run the gauntlet of the
usual souvenir sellers if you go up the stairs (all 300+ of them) but we took
the cable car up for 30baht ($1).It’s a
bit hard to describe so maybe I’ll just post some photos instead.

The view of Chiang mai would be spectacular in the dry season.

Next
stop was Tiger Kingdom.We did the “will
we, won’t we” thing – and while I don’t particularly
like to see animals exploited, I contented myself with the notion that without
something like Tiger Kingdom, these amazing animals may not be alive and the
species would be one step closer to endangered.There is al sorts of discussion as to whether the tigers are drugged,
de-clawed, mis-treated etc – nothing we saw today gave us any concern.The cats were beautiful, we checked the claws
on a couple and they were certainly there, and while they were quiet, I do not
believe they were drugged – our domestic cats sleep for large parts of the day
so why not these guys.

Awsome experience and I must admit I really did not realise just how big these girls were. This one loved having her tummy scratched.

Tony found it much easier to pat the tigers on their lounges - kneeling on the ground was not an option for him.

Is this the most beautiful face ever?

These two were really enjoying chasing this palm frond - just like our girls chase things on bits of string

Playing chasings & pounce in the pool .. just what a tiger ordered on a hot day.

Home
early afternoon, a very late lunch, a nap and we’ll head to the night markets
again tonight.

1 comment:

Hi, please note that the owners of Home Phu Toey do welcome visitors for the Dunlop Weary Museum. They just needed advance notice, so it is best to get your hotel to arrange for it before popping up there. No entrance fee is required at all.